National Board Part I Dental Reference Texts

National Board test items are not based on specific textbooks. Test construction committees that develop Part I examinations use, as reference, the latest editions of the following textbooks.

Anatomic Sciences Agur, Grants Atlas of Anatomy, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Avery and Steele, Oral Development and Histology, Thieme Gartner and Hiatt, Color Atlas of Histology, Mosby Kiernan, Barrs The Human Nervous System, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Moore, Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Moore and Agur, Essential Clinical Anatomy, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Moore and Persaud, The Developing Human, Saunders Stevens and Lowe, Human Histology, Mosby Nanci, Ten Cates Oral Histology, Elsevier Health Sciences

Biochemistry-Physiology Berne et al., Physiology, Mosby Devlin, Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations, Wiley Medical Guyton and Hall, Textbook of Medical Physiology, Saunders Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, Worth Meisenberg, Principles of Medical Biochemistry, Mosby Stryer, Biochemistry, Freeman Vander and Luciano, Human Physiology, McGraw Hill

Microbiology-Pathology Brooks, Medical Microbiology, Appleton Robbins and Cotran, Pathological Basis of Disease,7th Ed., Saunders Janeway and Travers, Immunobiology, Garland Murray et al., Medical Microbiology Mosby Robbins, Cotran, and Kumar, Robbins Basic Pathology, 7th Ed., Elsevier Health Sciences Slotts and Taubman, Contemporary Oral Microbiology and Immunology, Mosby

Dental Anatomy and Occlusion Ash and Nelson, Wheelers Dental Anatomy and Occlusion, Saunders Fuller and Denehy, Concise Dental Anatomy and Morphology, Yearbook Medical Okeson, Management of Temporomandibular Disorders and Occlusion, Mosby Testlet Costanzo, Physiology 3rd Ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Lucas, Dental Functional Morphology: How Teeth Work, Cambridge Press Murray, Pfaller, et al., Medical Microbiology, 5th Ed., Mosby Ozak and Sokol, Dental Ethics at Chairside, Georgetown Univ. Press Pickett and Gurenlian, The Medical History, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Runge and Greganti, Netters Internal Medicine, Icon Learning Systems Scheid and Woelfel, Dental Anatomy: Its Relevance to Dentistry, 6th Ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Seifert et al., Concepts in Medical Physiology, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins